Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.


 There is a sense of the fitness of things in S5,000, to be paid from the liquor tax, to any firm which will start coffin factory there.
 One by one the walking delegates go. A man who has done what he conld as walk ing delegate to disturb Derby has walked out of the place leaving his wife and children in want.
 It is proposed that the members of the Massachusetts legislature should raise their salaries from s750 to $1 ,000, but the asser- ton is freely made that the legislators this year are not of the thousand-dollar kind.
 It has taken fifteen years to finish the marble work on Philadelphia's new city hall, and it has cost $5, ,500,000 More than as much more has been spent on the other work, and it is believed that if the money holds out in ten years more the building will be finished.
 AR advertisement in the Philadelphia pa pe1s calls for the immediate presentation of all claims against Keely, the motor inventor. It is said that the machine is at last perfect ed and that he wishes to give it 8 fair and honest start. It is about time that it had a fair and honest start if it is ever going to have one.
 Although the work of emancipation has been going on in Brazil since 1871, it appears that there are still about 1, ,330, ,006 slaves in that country. In the past twelve years about Is, ,OOO persons have been freed annually. n1l,s r., ;s eIo hot of sion has been changed so that it is expected slavery will disappear in about thirteen years.
 It is asserted that M. Jules Lugois has been successful in hypnotizing by telephone. The first experiment was made upon NJ. Cor doilet, one of the editors of ''The Courier de ] Meurthe ct Moselle," through line about 1,5O0 metres in length. M. Gordoilet was hypnotized by distant operator within two CT three minutes of placing the telephone to | his ear. lady was subsequently sent into a hypnotic sleep, and further experiments on various persons showed that there was no l difficulty in producing all the ordinary hyp- l notic effects on distant subject by means of 1 the telephone.
 In Missouri there are county boards for the equalization of taxation, ,and they seem tc amount to something. The board of equali. zation in Buchanan county has raised the as sessed value of personal property in that county from $497, 1895 to s1, ,577, ,6O0-an in crease of s1, ,OsO,e75. The assessment was raised upon fifty -four individuals and cor porations. The largest increase was upor the estate of Milton Tootie, from $104, ,25( | to $9S0, 900. Quite number of the assess ments were more than doubled, while others were increased from $500 to 2,000, one from $40 to $5,40O, one from $2s0 to $10,00O Two railroad companies were raised $1 ,OOt each and telegraph company $1, ,500.
 The apprentice question, forcibly and cor rectly remarks the St. Paul Pioneer Press
 twill not wait much longer for hearing The right to earn living by honest labor ii as fundamental any right well can be But when trades are hedged about with rule which limit the number of apprentices, whe1 the lists are complete and when the ranks O. the ordinary unskilled laborer are full, thel the surplus boys are ordered off the earth
 There is no place for them and their onl. possible chance for existence is in beggary O
 crime. It is a rule against nature ant
 against humanity. The apprentice question
 came to the front in the recent strike of tn
 silver -chasers. There was more work read.
 than the men skilled in this business coult l. do. But the prescribed number of appren